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[CITE: 48USC1712]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                    CHAPTER 16--DELEGATES TO CONGRESS
 
                  SUBCHAPTER I--GUAM AND VIRGIN ISLANDS
 
Sec. 1712. Election of delegates; majority; runoff election; 
        vacancy; commencement of term
        
    (a) The Delegate shall be elected by the people qualified to vote 
for the members of the legislature of the territory he is to represent 
at the general election of 1972, and thereafter at such general election 
every second year thereafter. The Delegate from the Virgin Islands shall 
be elected at large, by separate ballot and by a majority of the votes 
cast for the office of Delegate. The Delegate from Guam shall be elected 
at large and by a majority of the votes cast for the office of Delegate. 
If no candidate receives such majority, on the fourteenth day following 
such election a runoff election shall be held between the candidates 
receiving the highest and the second highest number of votes cast for 
the office of Delegate. In case of a permanent vacancy in the office of 
Delegate, by reason of death, resignation, or permanent disability, the 
office of Delegate shall remain vacant until a successor shall have been 
elected and qualified.
    (b) The term of the Delegate shall commence on the third day of 
January following the date of the election.

(Pub. L. 92-271, Sec. 2, Apr. 10, 1972, 86 Stat. 119; Pub. L. 105-209, 
Sec. 1, July 29, 1998, 112 Stat. 880.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-209 inserted ``from the Virgin 
Islands'' before ``shall be elected at large'' and inserted ``The 
Delegate from Guam shall be elected at large and by a majority of the 
votes cast for the office of Delegate.'' before ``If no candidate 
receives such majority''.
